August 16, 2017
Charles Hatfield and new English department hire (with Liberal Studies) Krystal Howard recently took part in a podcast on children’s and young adult comics.
Back on July 25, Krystal Howard and Charles Hatfield took part in a podcast on children’s and young adult comics, part of the Young Readers series on The Comics Alternative, a popular group of podcasts consisting of conversations among scholars about comics and Comics Studies.
The hosts of the show are Dr. Gwen Athene Tarbox of Western Michigan U (Krystal’s diss. advisor, https://wmich.edu/english/directory/tarbox) and Paul F. Lai, PhD candidate in Language, Literacy, and Culture at the UC Berkeley Grad School of Education and a longtime public school English teacher.
Krystal and Charles joined Gwen and Paul for a special CSUN-themed discussion of teaching comics at the intersection of Children’s Literature and Comics Studies. The podcast can be accessed on The Comics Alternative or via YouTube.